March 28, 2014, 1:50PM

The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. District Judge David Dowd Jr. acted correctly in doling out prison terms for Douglas Wright, Anthony Hayne, Brandon Baxter and Connor Stevens. Full story »

October 07, 2013, 3:00PM

Joshua Stafford, 24, of Cleveland, the last of five men convicted of plotting to blow up a bridge spanning the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, was sentenced today to 10 years in a federal prison. Full story »

June 23, 2013, 4:05PM

The five men who plotted to blow up the Ohio 82 bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in April 2012 wanted to be seen as modern anarchists -- libertarian intellectuals protesting corporate America and its most wealthy beneficiaries. They won't get to wear that mantle. They are more likely to be remembered as common terrorists -- homegrown fanatics... Full story »

June 13, 2013, 7:01PM

A federal jury in Akron took less than two hours to convict Joshua Stafford, 24, of Cleveland, of plotting with four fellow anarchists to blow up a bridge spanning the Cuyahoga Valley National Park last year. Full story »

June 12, 2013, 4:30PM

Federal prosecutors finished their case against Joshua Stafford, the last of five men accused in a failed plot to blow up a bridge on Ohio 82. Stafford said his only defense witness would be himself. Full story »

June 12, 2013, 12:00PM

Joshua Stafford, the last of five men accused in a failed plot to blow up a bridge on Ohio 82, stumbled in his first significant attempt to act as his own attorney this morning at his trial in U.S. District Court. Full story »

June 11, 2013, 9:20PM

Jurors in the federal trial of Joshua Stafford, the last of five men accused in a failed plot to blow up a bridge on Ohio 82, got to look Tuesday at the fake plastic explosives, equipped with red LED lights, that prosecutors described as central to the plot. Full story »

June 10, 2013, 10:45AM

Joshua Stafford, 23, of Cleveland, is serving as his own attorney. He is charged with the use of weapons of mass destruction and aiding and abetting the use of weapons of mass destruction. Full story »

April 15, 2013, 11:58AM

Two forensic psychologists testified this morning that Joshua Stafford is mentally ill and has a variety of behavioral problems, but he is competent to stand trial on charges linked to a failed plot to blow up the Ohio 82 bridge last year. Full story »

April 03, 2013, 7:15PM

Joshua Stafford, the fifth and final defendant in the failed plot to blow up the Ohio 82 bridge, has been found competent to stand trial, according to his defense lawyers, who filed a seven-page brief Wednesday. Full story »

November 30, 2012, 12:15PM

U.S. District Judge David Dowd Jr. ordered Anthony Hayne, 36, to prison. Hayne is the fourth of five men who pleaded guilty involving the botched plot. Hayne was the only person to cooperate with authorities, a move that created a legal predicament in his sentencing. Full story »

November 17, 2012, 12:02PM

Defense lawyers included the demolitions report in motions filed in advance of hearings scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, when U.S. District Court Judge David Dowd Jr. will decide the fate of four of the five accused bombers. Full story »

November 05, 2012, 5:40PM

Three of the defendants maintain they were seduced by a paid FBI informant who plied them with money, jobs, food, free housing and drugs, and prodded them to blow up the Ohio 82 bridge against their better judgment. Full story »

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